Thanks for clarifying that for me!
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>wrote:
> 2012-03-20 18:33, David Dorward wrote:
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> On 20 Mar 2012, at 09:12, Ben Ellis wrote:
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>>> I glanced at the specification and it states that it
>>> MUST contain an HTML tag, but the W3C validator and most browsers will
>>> successfully parse an HTML document without an HTML tag.
>>>
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>> "An html element's start tag may be omitted if the first thing inside the
>> html element is not a comment."
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>> http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/**syntax.html#optional-tags<http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#optional-tags>
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> HTML5 is work in progress, and any HTML5 validation is experimental (and
> does not necessarily reflect the most recent HTML5 draft).
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> According to approved specifications, the tags <html> and </html> are
> always optional in HTML, except in XHTML, where they are always required.
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> Yucca
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